Writers Reading Writers: Intertextual Studies in Medieval and Early Modern Literature in Honor of Robert HollanderUniversity of Delaware Press, 2007 - 255 pages This volume is a collection of intertextual studies on medieval and early modern literature in honor of Robert Hollander by some of his former students. Writers are always also readers, responding to texts that have provoked their thought. The contributors to this volume all participate in its overarching theme: writers reading and responding to the work of other writers. As Hollander's work has focused especially on Dante and Boccaccio, many of the essays treat one of these writers, either as reading or as read by others. Other essays trace intertextual influences in Langland, Shakespeare, or post-Enlightenment writers faced with the loss of Dante's meaningful cosmos. |
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... tale's two main characters . Maggi combines Boccac- cio with Machiavelli as his sources when he sets two women against each other to demonstrate that both are too extreme . In so doing , Maggi emphasizes the political rather than ...
... tale's two main characters . Maggi combines Boccac- cio with Machiavelli as his sources when he sets two women against each other to demonstrate that both are too extreme . In so doing , Maggi emphasizes the political rather than ...
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... tale of Actaeon as it is recounted in Metamorphoses III , is Dante's position as unthreatened ( as long as unseen ) ob- server . His moving into the field of vision of the Malebranche ex- poses him to danger . The particular nature of ...
... tale of Actaeon as it is recounted in Metamorphoses III , is Dante's position as unthreatened ( as long as unseen ) ob- server . His moving into the field of vision of the Malebranche ex- poses him to danger . The particular nature of ...
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... tale , but the precious game Dante plays with the devils ' names is reminiscent of Ovid's game with canine onomastics in that same tale . The focus of the poem now lies on the signifiers of Actaeon's episode and the effect that may ...
... tale , but the precious game Dante plays with the devils ' names is reminiscent of Ovid's game with canine onomastics in that same tale . The focus of the poem now lies on the signifiers of Actaeon's episode and the effect that may ...
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... tale had in the Greek tradition , usually referring to the story only periphrastically and in passing.5 It is not until Ovid's Metamorphoses , Dante's source for the myth , that the tale of Philomela and Procne receives a fully ren ...
... tale had in the Greek tradition , usually referring to the story only periphrastically and in passing.5 It is not until Ovid's Metamorphoses , Dante's source for the myth , that the tale of Philomela and Procne receives a fully ren ...
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... these woods , I will fill them with my story and move even the rocks to an understanding of my tale [ 6.545-47 ] ) . Philomela's only possible retaliation is the narration of her tragic story ; a 42 JESSICA LEVENSTEIN.
... these woods , I will fill them with my story and move even the rocks to an understanding of my tale [ 6.545-47 ] ) . Philomela's only possible retaliation is the narration of her tragic story ; a 42 JESSICA LEVENSTEIN.
Contents
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Pagan Vision and Poetic Revisions | 58 |
Dante and the Dilemma of Judgment | 73 |
Reading Ovid through Dante in the House of Fame Book 3 | 89 |
Oerpressed Spirits in Shakespeares Pericles | 109 |
Ernst Robert Curtius and Dante as a Reader of Medieval Latin Authors | 133 |
Did Langland Read the Lignum Vitae? | 149 |
Classical and Vernacular Narrative Models for Art Biography in Vasaris Lives | 183 |
Maggis Griselda di Saluzzo | 201 |
Reading the PostEnlightenment Universe | 225 |
Contributors | 247 |
Index | 251 |
Commedia Index | |
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